Further information - Maungatapu murders

This web feature was written by Steve Watters and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.

Links

• Richard Burgess biography (Dictionary of New Zealand Biography)
• Maungatapu mountain killings (1966 Encyclopaedia)
• Philip Levy biography (1966 Encyclopaedia)
• Joseph Sullivan biography (1966 Encyclopaedia)
• Maungatapu murders (Crime NZ)
• Maungatapu murders - includes image of the death masks (The Prow)

Books

• Confessions of Richard Burgess: The Maungatapu Murders and other grisly Tales, David Burton, Reed 1983
• Death Round the Bend, J. Halket Millar, RW Stiles and Co Ltd, Nelson, 1954
• Guilty on the Gallows, Sherwood Young, Grantham House 1998
• Murders on Maungatapu, Frank Clune, Angus and Robertson, 1959
• The Maungatapu mountain murders : a narrative of the murder of five men between the Wakamarina River and Nelson by Burgess, Levy, Kelly and Sullivan, in 1866, with an account of their capture, trial, conviction and execution ; also, some particulars as to their lives and career in New Zealand, Luckie, D. M. (David Mitchell), Christchurch, N.Z.,  Kiwi Publishers, c1998